Bug 1520398

Summary: Querying the wifi status in libnm NMClient.get_property() fails
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Björn 'besser82' Esser <besser82>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Thomas Haller <thaller>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.4CC: atragler, besser82, bgalvani, fgiudici, leigh123linux, lmiksik, lrintel, rkhan, sukulkar, thaller, vbenes
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Description Björn 'besser82' Esser 2017-12-04 12:27:24 UTC 
Description of problem:

  Querying the wifi status in libnm NMClient.get_property() fails.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  All supported versions (1.8.X) in RHEL 7 / CentOS 7.


How reproducible:

  100%

Steps to Reproduce:

  1.  Try to get_property for PROP_WIRELESS_HARDWARE_ENABLED in libnm.
  2.  Does not work.


Actual results:

  Does not work because of a bug in the code.


Expected results:

  Works as expected.


Additional info:

  Please backport this commit [1] from lkundrak to fix it.


  [1] 
 https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/c81005b84650b8e6d709ce6afda96fb55987cdb8
Comment 2 Thomas Haller 2017-12-04 13:31:30 UTC 
This will be fixed for rhel-7.5 with the rebase to 1.10.
Comment 4 Vladimir Benes 2018-02-06 21:30:17 UTC 
tested in CI on all arches
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 13:34:16 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0778